Improvement in button-holes



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

CHARLES D. SMITH, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUTTON-HOLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 57,202, dated August 14, 1866.

To all whom tt may concern:

. Be it known that I, CHARLES D. SMITH, of the city and county of Washington, in the District of Oolumbia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Button-Holes i'or Shirt- Oollars and other Articles; and I do hereby.'

which is clamped in after` the manner ot' an eyelet, so as to extend continuously around and protect the button-hole.

The following description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, will enable one to fully understand and use the invention, which I have shown as applied to a colla-r.

A represents a collar, which may be of any form or style, and b represents the button-A holes. The button-holes are made round to receive an eyelet, a. The eyelet is xed or clamped iu the collar in any suitable way, and by its shape, or the shape of the button, it is adapted to be passed over the latter and be detained so as to attach the collar to the neckband otl the shirt.

The invention may be most useful in its application to paper collars; but its usefulness is supposed to extend to collars made of linen and other material.

The drawing represents the eyeletcd buttonholes only at the extremities ofthe collar, the intermediate button-hole--that which fastens at the back ofthe neck-being sufticiently strong without the eyelet to ontlast the collar. The eyelet may, however, be applied at this point, it' preferred.

A button of soft rubber or other suitable flexible or elastic material may be found best suited for the eyelet.

The eyelets maybe of elliptical or any other desired shape, the object and extent of the invention being the application of a metallic binding` to the button-hole.

The invention is applicable to all garments or articles of wearing-apparel, such vas coats, pantaloons,vests, and snspenders, also to carriage-curtains and other articles where buttonholes are used.

This invention is restricted to the binding` of such button-holes as are to be used in connection with an elastic or other button, and it does not have reference to the apertures through which lacings or cords are passed.

I am aware that hooks and eyes and apertures essentially ot' metal have been previously used as an attaching or fastening medium.

My invention depends exclusively on the application ot1 the metallic binding to button holes in iiexible material, and is especially iutended t'or such as are made in soft or yielding leather and in brous and textile fabrics.

Having thus described my invention, the. 

